The Full Journey
365 days. Five volumes. Two thousand years.
Vol. 1Blood & FireThe Early Church · 30–325 AD · Days 1–73
1The fire falls30 AD2Three thousand in a day30 AD3The lame man at the gatec. 30 AD4Everything in commonc. 30 AD5Ananias and the lie that killed himc. 30 AD6The first deaconsc. 33 AD7The face of an angelc. 33 AD8The first bloodc. 33 AD9The man holding the coatsc. 33 AD10Scattered like seedc. 34 AD11The road to Damascusc. 35 AD12Three days in the darkc. 35 AD13The one who took the riskc. 35 AD14Lowered in a basketc. 37 AD15A Roman centurion kneelsc. 40 AD16The church that almost stayed Jewishc. 49 AD17James the brother of Jesusc. 62 AD18Paul in chains, singingc. 50 AD19The unknown godc. 51 AD20The tentmakerc. 51 AD21Nero's torches64 AD22Peter crucified upside downc. 64–68 AD23Paul loses his headc. 67 AD24Jerusalem falls70 AD25The beloved apostle exiledc. 95 AD26Letters from the last eyewitnessc. 85–95 AD27The bishop walks into the arenac. 107 AD28I am God's wheatc. 107 AD29The governor's questionnairec. 112 AD30The philosopher who believedc. 130 AD31The old man who would not curse Christc. 155 AD32The fire that would not burn himc. 155 AD33A defense before the emperorc. 155 AD34The philosopher beheadedc. 165 AD35The letter from Lyon177 AD36The slave girl who wouldn't break177 AD37The survivor who fought backc. 180 AD38The blood of martyrs is seedc. 197 AD39The young mother in the arena203 AD40The scholar who burned brightc. 185–254 AD41Into the wildernessc. 270 AD42The demons in the cavec. 285–305 AD43The plague hits the church249–262 AD44Bibles burned in the streets303 AD45Those who handed over the books303–311 AD46In hoc signo vinces312 AD47The edict that ended the killing313 AD48Is the Son truly God?c. 318 AD49The young deacon who would not yield325 AD50The question that split the world325 AD51One word that split the world325 AD52Thrown to the lionsc. 108 AD53They sing to Christ as to a godc. 112 AD54The shepherd's visionc. 140 AD55Against all heresiesc. 180 AD56One faith, one churchc. 180 AD57The African theologianc. 197 AD58Perpetua's diary203 AD59The catechist of Alexandriac. 200 AD60The scholar who castrated himselfc. 204 AD61Origen in the libraryc. 220–240 AD62The bishop of bishops argumentc. 250 AD63Should the lapsed be restored?250 AD64Cyprian's last letter258 AD65The soldier who refused to fight295 AD66The Egyptian martyrs303–311 AD67Eusebius watches and writesc. 305–313 AD68The bishop who survived everythingc. 310–325 AD69The battle that changed the world312 AD70Churches built, not burned313–325 AD71What do we do with power?313–325 AD72A priest named Arius starts talkingc. 318 AD73Three hundred bishops in one roomMay 325 AD
Vol. 2Councils & ConfessionsThe Age of Doctrine · 313–600 AD · Days 74–146
74Homoousios — one word that split the world325 AD75Athanasius against the world335 AD76The first exile335 AD77Five times and still standing335–366 AD78The emperor's deathbed baptism337 AD79The desert fathers go outc. 270–356 AD80Anthony enters his cavec. 285 AD81The night Anthony cried outc. 290 AD82The biography that launched a thousand monksc. 356 AD83The father of monksc. 320 AD84The sayings of the desert4th–5th century85Abba, speak a word4th century86The Cappadocians risec. 360 AD87Basil builds a city for the poorc. 370 AD88The great theologian and the great friendc. 350 AD89Gregory of Nazianzus' reluctant sermon379 AD90On the Holy Spirit375 AD91The council of Constantinople381 AD92The golden-mouthed preacherc. 386–397 AD93The empress and the bishop403 AD94Exiled for telling the truth404–407 AD95A young man's prayer in Carthagec. 371–386 AD96Our heart is restlessc. 397 AD97The voice in the garden386 AD98Take up and read386 AD99Monica's thirty years of tearsc. 354–387 AD100The bishop who never wanted the job391 AD101The city that fell410–413 AD102The city of God413–426 AD103The heresy of self-salvationc. 410–418 AD104You would not have sought mec. 415 AD105Jerome in Bethlehemc. 382–405 AD106The Vulgate Bible405 AD107Jerome and Paulac. 385 AD108The bishop of the poorc. 374–397 AD109The emperor kneels in the aisle390 AD110What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?4th–5th century111Nestorius and the mother of God428–431 AD112The council at Ephesus431 AD113The robber council449 AD114Leo's letter that ended a heresy449 AD115Chalcedon settles the nature of Christ451 AD116Truly God and truly man451 AD117Attila at the gates452 AD118Patrick taken as a slavec. 406 AD119The prayer on the cold hillsidec. 407–411 AD120Go backc. 432 AD121The Druid's island becomes Christ'sc. 432–461 AD122The fire that wouldn't go outc. 433 AD123Benedict writes a rulec. 516 AD124Pray and workc. 516–529 AD125The monastery at Monte Cassino529 AD126Gregory the Great takes the throne590 AD127He called himself servant of servants590–604 AD128Those are not angels, they are Anglesc. 595 AD129Augustine sent to England596 AD130The king of Kent is baptized597 AD131Columba sails to Iona563 AD132The scriptorium and the sword6th century133The Plague of Justinian541 AD134Justinian builds Hagia Sophia537 AD135We have not found its equal988 AD136The church splits east and west — slowly5th–6th century137Boethius in prison524 AD138The last Roman philosopher524 AD139Cassiodorus saves the booksc. 540 AD140Simeon sits on his pillarc. 423–459 AD141The Syrian mystics4th–6th century142The Didache rediscoveredorig. c. 100 AD143The creed they all confessedAll centuries144The prayer they all prayedAll centuries145The table they all gathered atAll centuries146What the pagans saw2nd–3rd century
Vol. 3Darkness & LightThe Medieval Church · 600–1517 AD · Days 147–219
147Islam rises in the desert610 AD148Jerusalem falls to the caliphate637 AD149The church of the East5th–9th century150Bede writes in his cellc. 731 AD151The Lindisfarne Gospelsc. 715 AD152Boniface cuts the sacred oak723 AD153Boniface martyred at 80754 AD154Charlemagne kneels at Christmas800 AD155The icon controversy726–843 AD156Cyril and Methodius go to the Slavsc. 863 AD157The Great Schism1054 AD158Two men who excommunicated each other1054 AD159Anselm and the argument for Godc. 1078 AD160Why God became manc. 1098 AD161The pope calls for crusade1095 AD162God wills it1096 AD163Jerusalem taken1099 AD164The knights who prayedc. 1119 AD165Bernard of Clairvaux and the second crusade1147 AD166Love and only lovec. 1130s AD167Hildegard of Bingen hears the voicec. 1141 AD168The feathers of God's wing1151 AD169Thomas Becket and the king1170 AD170The university is born12th century171Abelard and the razor of reasonc. 1120 AD172The Fourth Lateran Council1215 AD173A rich man's son strips naked1206 AD174Brother Sun, Sister Moonc. 1224 AD175The wolf of Gubbioc. 1220 AD176Francis before the Sultan1219 AD177The poor lady of Assisic. 1212 AD178Dominic and the preaching order1216 AD179The Cathars and the church's overreach1209 AD180Thomas Aquinas — the dumb ox speaksc. 1248 AD181Faith and reason are not enemiesc. 1265 AD182All I have written is straw1273 AD183The children's crusade1212 AD184Jerusalem lost again1187 AD185Roger Bacon and the experimental mindc. 1260s AD186Bonaventure's mind's road to God1259 AD187Meister Eckhart and the spark of the soulc. 1290s AD188The Black Death arrives1347 AD189The church buries its priests1347–1351 AD190The flagellants and the fear1349 AD191Julian of Norwich receives her visions1373 AD192Showings written in a cellc. 1393 AD193The Babylonian captivity of the church1309 AD194Catherine of Siena writes the pope1376 AD195Two popes at once1378–1417 AD196Three popes at once1409 AD197John Wycliffe and the English Biblec. 1382 AD198The morning star of the Reformationc. 1374–1384 AD199The Lollards take the Bible undergroundc. 1384 AD200Jan Hus reads Wycliffec. 1402 AD201Hus at the Council of Constance1414 AD202The goose before the fireJuly 6, 1415 AD203Thomas à Kempis writes in his cellc. 1418–1427 AD204Joan of Arc hears voices1425 AD205The maid of Orleans1429 AD206Burned by the church she died forMay 30, 1431 AD207A hundred years hence1415 AD208What good is it to know the Trinity?c. 1418 AD209The Council of Constance heals the schism1417 AD210The Ottoman Turks take ConstantinopleMay 29, 1453 AD211Greek scholars flee west1453 AD212Gutenberg's pressc. 1455 AD213The first printed book is a Bible1455 AD214Savonarola's bonfire of the vanities1497 AD215Erasmus laughs at the church1511 AD216What the medieval church built12th–15th century217What the medieval church got wrong600–1400 AD218What the medieval church got right600–1400 AD219The swan is comingc. 1500 AD
Vol. 4Here I StandThe Reformation · 1500–1700 AD · Days 220–292
220The monk who couldn't find peacec. 1505–1515 AD221A thunderstorm and a vowJuly 2, 1505 AD222The tower experiencec. 1515 AD223The just shall live by faithc. 1515 AD224Johann Tetzel and the jinglec. 1517 AD225Ninety-five theses on a doorOctober 31, 1517 AD226The printing press does the rest1517 AD227Leipzig — Luther debates EckJuly 1519 AD228The bull that burnedJune 1520 AD229Luther burns the bullDecember 10, 1520 AD230Here I standApril 18, 1521 AD231The knight in the castle1521–1522 AD232The German New TestamentSeptember 1522 AD233Zwingli and the Swiss Reformation1519 AD234The Marburg Colloquy failsOctober 1529 AD235This is my body — they disagree1529 AD236The Anabaptists rebaptize1525 AD237Conrad Grebel baptizes in a kitchenJanuary 21, 1525 AD238Drowned for their beliefs1525–1560 AD239The Schleitheim ConfessionFebruary 24, 1527 AD240Michael Sattler burned aliveMay 20, 1527 AD241Tyndale smuggles the Bible1526 AD242Bibles hidden in bales of cloth1526 AD243The king wants a divorce1527 AD244Thomas More will not sign1534 AD245A man for all seasonsJuly 6, 1535 AD246Tyndale betrayed and strangledOctober 6, 1536 AD247Cranmer and the English prayer book1549 AD248The young Frenchman fleeing Paris1534 AD249Stopped in Geneva for one night1536 AD250Calvin's Geneva1541–1564 AD251The Institutes of the Christian Religion1536–1559 AD252The sovereignty of Godc. 1540s AD253Servetus and the limits of toleranceOctober 27, 1553 AD254John Knox in the galleys1547–1549 AD255Knox returns to Scotland1559 AD256One man with God is a majorityc. 1561–1563 AD257The Council of Trent responds1545 AD258Ignatius of Loyola's cannonballMay 20, 1521 AD259The Jesuits and the world1540 AD260Francis Xavier in Japan1549 AD261Bloody Mary burns the bishopsOctober 16, 1555 AD262Be of good comfort, Master RidleyOctober 16, 1555 AD263Cranmer holds his hand in the flameMarch 21, 1556 AD264Queen Elizabeth and the settlement1559 AD265The Spanish Armada and providence1588 AD266The St. Bartholomew's Day MassacreAugust 24, 1572 AD267The Edict of NantesApril 13, 1598 AD268The Thirty Years War begins1618 AD269Defenestration of PragueMay 23, 1618 AD270The Peace of WestphaliaOctober 24, 1648 AD271The Puritans sail for America1620 AD272The Mayflower compactNovember 11, 1620 AD273Bunyan in Bedford jail1660–1672 AD274The pilgrim's burden fallsc. 1670 AD275The King James Bible published1611 AD276Forty-seven scholars and one Bible1604–1611 AD277The Westminster Confession1646 AD278The Heidelberg Catechism1563 AD279George Fox and the inner lightc. 1647 AD280The Dutch church under Spanish rulec. 1550–1580 AD281William of Orange and religious freedom1568 AD282Matteo Ricci enters the Forbidden City1601 AD283The church in Japan goes undergroundc. 1597 AD284Twenty-six martyrs of JapanFebruary 5, 1597 AD285Las Casas defends the Indiansc. 1514–1566 AD286The church and the conquest16th century287The first African converts15th–16th century288Menno Simons and the quiet revolutionc. 1537 AD289Robert de Nobili and the Brahmin approachc. 1606 AD290The Mughal emperor and the Jesuitsc. 1580s AD291The world is my parish — foreshadowedc. 1650 AD292What the Reformation gave us1400–1650 AD
Vol. 5Fire in the WorldThe Modern Church · 1700–Present · Days 293–365
293The Holy Club at Oxfordc. 1729 AD294Whitefield preaches to thousandsFebruary 1739 AD295Wesley's heart strangely warmedMay 24, 1738 AD296The world is my parish1739–1791 AD297Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening1734 AD298Sinners in the hands of an angry GodJuly 8, 1741 AD299David Brainerd dies at 29October 9, 1747 AD300The Moravians pray nonstopAugust 27, 1727 AD301Zinzendorf and the refugee community1722 AD302Expect great things from GodMay 31, 1792 AD303The first modern missionary1793 AD304Carey's Bible translations1793–1834 AD305The slave trader who became a hymn writer1779 AD306Wilberforce and the long fight1787–1833 AD307The night slavery ended in BritainAugust 28, 1833 AD308Spurgeon fills the Crystal PalaceOctober 7, 1857 AD309Adoniram Judson in a Burmese prison1824 AD310Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission1865 AD311Taylor dresses as a Chinese manc. 1853 AD312Mary Slessor alone in Calabarc. 1876 AD313The twin babies she savedc. 1880s AD314The Azusa Street RevivalApril 9, 1906 AD315William Seymour and the color line broken1906 AD316The church grows in Africa20th century317Bonhoeffer leaves AmericaJuly 1939 AD318The Confessing Church stands upMay 31, 1934 AD319The cost of discipleship1937 AD320Letters from a Nazi prison1943–1945 AD321Hanged three weeks before liberationApril 9, 1945 AD322The German Christians who looked away1933–1945 AD323Ten Boom's hiding place1942–1944 AD324Ravensbrück and the forgiven guardc. 1947 AD325The atheist who read MacDonald on a trainc. 1929–1931 AD326Lewis goes on the radio1941 AD327The church behind the Iron Curtain1917–1989 AD328Richard Wurmbrand tortured for Christ1948–1964 AD329The underground church20th century330Graham fills Yankee Stadium1957 AD331The pope opens the windowsOctober 11, 1962 AD332Aggiornamento1962–1965 AD333Martin Luther King at the Lincoln MemorialAugust 28, 1963 AD334Letter from Birmingham jailApril 16, 1963 AD335The martyrs of BirminghamSeptember 15, 1963 AD336Oscar Romero speaks for the poor1977–1980 AD337Shot at the altarMarch 24, 1980 AD338Mother Teresa in the gutterc. 1948 AD339The darkest night of the soul1950s–1990s AD340Wang Mingdao refuses to compromise1955 AD341The Korean church that prays at 5am20th century342Monday night prayers in LeipzigOctober 9, 1989 AD343Desmond Tutu and the Truth Commission1996 AD344The global south takes the leadLate 20th century345The most persecuted church in the world21st century346What the church got wrong1650–Present347What the church got right1650–Present348The martyrs of the 20th century20th century349The chain that holds30 AD – Present350The creed across every centuryAll eras351The prayer that never changedAll eras352The table through the centuriesAll eras353The communion of saintsAll eras354Letters to the church not yet bornAll eras355We are not the last chapterAll eras356John Stott and the Lausanne covenant1974 AD357The house church movement in Iran21st century358The fall of the Berlin WallNovember 9, 1989 AD359Nigeria surpasses Britain in Anglicans21st century360The Pope opens a window in Rome2013 AD361The abuse crisis and the church2002–present362Yet the church enduresAll eras363He is risenc. 30 AD — and every morning since364Your name in the chainToday365The story continuesToday